[19/10/2023 05:28]

ADEN-SABA
Minister of Defense General Lieutenant Mohsen al-Da'iri received Thursday the Senior Representative of the United Nations in Yemen Abdulnasser Awali.

Minister al-Da'iri praised efforts and humanitarian interventions of the UN in Yemen, confirming significance of continuous efforts and support to the National Anti-Landmines Program, which has big role in removing landmines planted by Houthi terrorist militia randomly in huge numbers.

He pointed out that the terrorist militia has transformed Yemen into the biggest field of landmines and planted them in cities, roads, farms, schools and populated neighborhoods in blatant challenge to the International Humanitarian Law.

He noted to the big role of the Saudi Masam Project in removing hundreds of thousands of landmines, praising this program which has been working for years and cleansed big area of Yemeni lands.

Minister al-Da'iri confirmed that Yemen has become the biggest country in the world polluted with landmines since the beginning of the First World War.

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